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Compare the raised cups and tilted heads, then look for the smallest figure partly hidden behind the table.
While living at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh reworked images by artists he admired. This painting interprets a wood engraving after Honoré Daumier’s scene of drinkers, whose figures represent different ages. Working from a printed composition let Van Gogh concentrate on his own decisions about paint, color, and rhythm.
Oil on canvas · 59.4 × 73.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- The Drinkers
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 59.4 × 73.4 cm (23 3/8 × 28 7/8 in.); Framed: 78.9 × 93.3 cm (31 1/16 × 36 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Joseph Winterbotham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.